Yello is a popular Swiss electronica band consisting of Dieter Meier and Boris Blank. They are probably best known for their single "Oh Yeah", which featured a rich mix of electronic music and manipulated vocals. The song became famous after being featured in the American movies Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Secret of My Success, and more recently Soul Plane. The song is used on The Simpsons as the theme for the Duffman character.

Yello was originally formed by Boris Blank and Carlos Peron in the late 1970s. Dieter Meier, a millionaire playboy with a very versatile career, was brought in when the two founders realised that they needed a singer. Meier and Blank joined forces in 1979 to release a single called "I.T. Splash". The LP Solid Pleasure, featuring the hit dance single "Bostich", was released the following year. It wasn't until 1983 that Yello received substantial media attention, with the release of "I Love You" and "Lost Again". Peron left the band in 1983 to start a solo career.

Yello takes great pride in its original sound, which is mainly characterised by weird samples, a heavy reliance on rhythm and Dieter Meier's dark voice. Boris Blank has taken a couple vocal turns on "Swing" (from "You've Gotta' Say Yes to Another Excess) and "Blazing Saddles" (from "Flag"), and guest vocalists have included Rush Winters (the first female diva to be featured on a Yello recording), Billy Mackenzie, and Shirley Bassey. The group is not afraid of collaboration and has shared writing credit with MacKenzie and Winters. Every track on a Yello album has been created by the band from scratch. Nearly every instrument has been sampled and engineered by Boris Blank, who over the years has built up an original sample library of over 100,000 named and categorized sounds.

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